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Prefused lysosomes cluster on autophagosomes regulated by VAMP8

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CELL DEATH & DISEASE
Volume 12, Issue 10, Pages -

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SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1038/s41419-021-04243-0

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  1. Welch Foundation [I-1864]
  2. CPRIT [RP170382]
  3. National Institutes of Health [R35GM128837, R01GM116908, R01NS094144, R01CA211066]

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The study revealed that lysosomes cluster around autophagosomes upon stimulation, setting the stage for membrane fusion, with the SNARE protein VAMP8 playing a crucial role in this prefusion state. Phosphorylation of VAMP8 was found to reduce spontaneous fusion under normal conditions while preassembling multiple lysosomes to increase fusion probability upon stimulation, impacting autophagosome maturation and chemotherapy drug resistance.
Lysosome-autophagosome fusion is critical to autophagosome maturation. Although several proteins that regulate this fusion process have been identified, the prefusion architecture and its regulation remain unclear. Herein, we show that upon stimulation, multiple lysosomes form clusters around individual autophagosomes, setting the stage for membrane fusion. The soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptor (SNARE) protein on lysosomes-vesicle-associated membrane protein 8 (VAMP8)-plays an important role in forming this prefusion state of lysosomal clusters. To study the potential role of phosphorylation on spontaneous fusion, we investigated the effect of phosphorylation of C-terminal residues of VAMP8. Using a phosphorylation mimic, we observed a decrease of fusion in an ensemble lipid mixing assay and an increase of unfused lysosomes associated with autophagosomes. These results suggest that phosphorylation not only reduces spontaneous fusion for minimizing autophagic flux under normal conditions, but also preassembles multiple lysosomes to increase the fusion probability for resuming autophagy upon stimulation. VAMP8 phosphorylation may thus play an important role in chemotherapy drug resistance by influencing autophagosome maturation.

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